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Mars Society gains foothold in AI, robotics and biotechnology to clear a path to space

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NASA Photo / Dominic Hart) The Mars Society says it’s making progress on launching a startup incubator in the Seattle area, with artificial intelligence and biotech as its first targets. NASA engineer Christine Gregg inspects an experimental construction robot. Its long-term goal?

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Microsoft releases preview of Text Analytics for health, battle-tested in COVID-19 partnership

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Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform announced a new iteration of its Text Analytics technology for healthcare, bringing to market some of the artificial intelligence that the company previously contributed to an industry partnership to develop a COVID-19 search engine for researchers. Bigstock Photo.

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Seattle investment bank that helps buy and sell companies forms new SPAC to target ‘industry 4.0’

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is seen as the fourth industrial revolution, using the building blocks of computing and advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, deep learning, computer vision, Internet of Things (“IoT”), gene sequencing, energy storage, and blockchain, to transform the physical, digital and biological worlds,” the firm wrote in a SEC filing.

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Microsoft gives $5M to UW Medicine to use AI to accelerate response to next pandemic

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The funding will be used to find new ways to apply artificial intelligence to protein design. That’s one of the goals of a $5 million gift from Microsoft to the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Eric Horvitz, Microsoft chief scientific officer. Microsoft Photo).

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University of Washington’s David Baker wins Nobel Prize for solving protein puzzles

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The advent of artificial intelligence tools has accelerated the pace of protein structure prediction — with the Institute of Protein Design and DeepMind recognized as the world’s leaders. Other spinouts associated with the institute include Cyrus Biotechnology , Sana Biotechnology , A-Alpha Bio and Xaira Therapeutics.

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The voters will see you now: The finalists for Health Innovation of the Year at the GeekWire Awards

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The category highlights pioneering health, life science, biotechnology or medical breakthroughs that hold great promise for bettering our lives or improving the healthcare system. Adaptive Biotechnologies. So it’s little wonder that there’s stiff competition for the 2021 GeekWire Health Innovation of the Year.

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Madrona leads $60M investment into AI-powered drug discovery company Terray Therapeutics

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based Terray Therapeutics , which combines nanotechnology with artificial intelligence, has raised $60 million in a Series A funding round led by Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group. Pasadena, Calif.-based